Re: error number -1799 and good results?
Re: error number -1799 and good results?
- Subject: Re: error number -1799 and good results?
- From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:54:49 +0200
Le 13/09/2012 à 21:44, Iurista GmbH <email@hidden> a écrit :
> Hi
>
> I found this piece of code on http://hintsforums.macworld.com
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set proc_list to name of every process whose visible is true
> end tell
>
> The result is puzzling:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> get name of every process whose visible = true
> --> error number -1799
> end tell
> tell application "System Events"
> get name of every process whose visible = true
> --> {"Finder", "AppleScript Editor", "firefox"}
> end tell
> Ergebnis:
> {"Finder", "AppleScript Editor", "firefox"}
>
> Why is this error code, although the scripts seems to delivers a proper result?
> Any hints for my curiosity?
> Thanks
> Rudolf
>
My understanding is that the Finder is unable to treat the request so that it is passed to System Events.
Exactly as when we trigger a function from an OSAX in a tel … end tell block.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 13 septembre 2012 21:54:33
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